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02/19/2011 08:13:58 PM · #1 |
I never thought I'd watch a video from an energy drink company and find it as awesome as I found this to be-
Nicely filmed, and I like what the guy has to say about life in general.
The Dark Side of the Lens
Hope some of you enjoy it as I did.
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02/20/2011 12:39:02 AM · #2 |
| Stunning footage. If I could only understand what he was saying :-) |
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02/20/2011 04:48:24 PM · #3 |
That was pretty darn awesome.
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02/20/2011 05:12:04 PM · #4 |
Truly awesome images...and I did understand what he said. "
:O)
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02/20/2011 06:10:24 PM · #5 |
| Fantastic, I also understood what he said, though sounds like he's from Cornwall or Devon so I can see why you had problems! |
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02/20/2011 06:58:55 PM · #6 |
| Amazing video! I didn't realize it was for an energy drink. Thanks for sharing the link. |
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02/20/2011 09:36:18 PM · #7 |
Oh I know... weird about it being for an energy drink, eh?
Red Bull does some AWESOME stuff for alternative/action sports, so it's not too unusual, but still, it did surprise me as well.
And for those who couldn't understand him-
Life in the real is something I was raised to embrace. Me ma always encouraged us to open our eyes and hearts to the world. Make up our own minds for experience and be inspired.
I see life in angles, in lines of perspective – a slight turn of the head, the blink of an eye, subtle glimpses of magic – other folk might pass by. Cameras help me translate, interpret and understand what I see. It’s a simple act that keeps me grinnin’. I never set out to become anything in particular, only to live creatively and push the scope of my experience for adventure and for passion. They're still all that mean something to me, same as most anyone with dreams. My heart bleeds celtic blood and I'm magnetized to familiar frontiers. The raw brutal cold coastlands for the right waveriders to challenge – this is where my heart beats hardest.
I try to pay tribute to that magic through photographs. Weathering the endless staunch for rare glimpses of magic each winter is both a blessing and a curse I relish. I wanna see waveriding documented the way I see it in my head, and the way I feel it in the sea. It's a strange set of skills to begin to acquire. This is only achievable through time spent riding waves. All sorts of waves on all sorts of crafts. There is more time learning out on the water, floating in the sea amongst lumps and swells, you always learn something. It̢۪s been a lifelong wise old classroom teacher of sorts and hopefully, it always will be. Buried beneath headlands, shaping the coast, mind-blowing images of empty waves burn away at me.
Solid ocean swells powering through deep cold water, heavy waves, waves in wait, coaxed from comfortable routine, ignite the imagination, conveys some divine spark, whisper possibilities, conjure the situations I thrive amongst and love to document. You'll take knocks in the process – broken backs, drownings, near-drownings, hypothermia, dislocations, fractures, frostbite, head wounds, stitches, concussions, broke my arm – and that’s just the last couple of years, still look forward to getting amongst it each winter though.
Cold creeping into your core, driving you mad, day after day, mumbling to yourself while you hold position and wait for the next set to come. The dark side of the lens – An artform that to itself and us, silent workhorses of the surfing world. There’s no sugary cliché. Most folks don’t even know who we are, and what we do or how we do it, let alone what they pay us for it. I never want to take this for granted so I try to keep motivation simple, real, and positive.
If I only scrape a living, at least it̢۪s a living worth scraping.
If there̢۪s no future in it, this is a present worth remembering.
For fires of happiness and waves of gratitude. For everything that brought us to that point on earth at that moment in time, to do something worth remembering with a photograph, or a scar -I feel genuinely lucky to hand on heart say I love doing what I do. And though I may never be a rich man, if I live long enough, I'll certainly have a tale or two for the nephews. And I dig the thought of that.
If anybody has a disagreement on any of that, feel free to correct it (particularly you Iain), but I'm pretty confident in my hearing of things, other than the very first line. Certainly worth reading if you couldn't understand it.
Message edited by author 2011-02-20 21:39:17. |
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02/20/2011 11:02:44 PM · #8 |
| That was magnificent and amazing. Thanks for the link!! |
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02/20/2011 11:25:29 PM · #9 |
Thanks very much Derek. I've seen the video but had no clue what he was saying, being deaf and all :-)
R. |
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